Churchill Park?

It is high time that Burgess Park in South London was renamed in order to honour Churchill, as originally intended

Saturday June 08 2013, 1.01am, The Times

Saturday June 08 2013, 1.01am, The Times

Sir, You report that Boris Johnson is writing a book celebrating Churchill (June 5). During the war he was asked what he would like for his memorial and he proposed a new public open space, “somewhere to play, for the poor children of South London”.

Thereafter, all town plans of the former London County Council, defined a new site for “167 acres open space in Camberwell”. Over many years the LCC compulsorily acquired countless bomb sites, slum clearances and other properties, including part of the old Surrey Canal, then filled in.

However, at the park’s opening a local Labour Party family in power at the GLC pressed to honour the late Jessie Burgess, whom few recall now. Recent upgrading of Burgess Park Camberwell